Nessus v4.2.2 released

Nessus is the world’s most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the world’s largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.

This release contains the following fixes:

Nessus-fetch:

Proxy issues have been resolved

NASL:

Fixed a memory leak in the NASL xmlparse() function

Networking:

Fixed IPv6 routing when talking to a remote host (FreeBSD, Mac OS X)

Packet forgery was not always working on ES5 64 bits

Packaging:

Fixed the Debian /etc/rc init script

Upgraded OpenSSL to version 0.9.8n (Windows, Solaris)

Stability:

Fixed a possible crash when using a badly written custom plugin

Fixed a possible crash when running out of BPFs on Windows More Information